Dragon Dictation App for iPhone Review
Dragon Dictation app for iPhone is a voice recognition application is provided by Nuance Communications which allows the users to easily speak to the iPhone and iPad. The user can instantly see their text and is faster up to five times than typing on the keyboard. With this app the user can dictate notes, set reminders and also can update status directly to Social Networking sites like Facebook or Orkut. This app is compatible on iPad, iPhone and iPod (requires external microphone) which has iOS 4.0 or above.
Dragon Dictation iPhone app requires Wi-Fi or 3G/EDGE network connectivity and makes sure on the internet connectivity before trying to use this application. This application would upload the name from address books to improve recognition accuracy only when given permission. The company maintains stringent security and privacy policy, only names and no other information like emails, address, phone numbers, or any other personal information is taken. The information is only taken to improve the usability and is not used for any other purpose.
Dragon Dictation App Features
- The user can transcript from Voice-to-text and then use it to send via SMS or Email or paste to any application using the clipboard.
- The user can edit or correct the text in several ways, just tap to get a drop-down list of alternative suggestions or can tap the keyboard icon on the bottom left corner to use the standard text editing. There is also voice driven correction interface.
- There are command features where the user can speak in commands like punctuation, new paragraph, new line, next line etc.
- Dragon Dictation iPhone application currently supports U.S. English, U.K. English, Australian English, German, European and Canadian French, Italian, Americas and European Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Cantonese, Taiwan Mandarin, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish. The users can easily switch between supported languages. Point to note is that this app does not allow toggling between languages and does not support dictating in multiple languages at same time.
- Dragon Dictation app will also utilize the data from recorded messages collected over time to continuously improve and provide high speech recognition accuracy.
How to obtain Dragon Dictation
- The user can directly download Dragon Dictation app from iTunes and install it.
- This is only for iPhone and by using SMS client. The user fills in all the required fields and gets the link texted to their iPhone. Click the link and get the app downloaded.
- The user can get the link using email and get the Dragon Dictation app installed.
Conclusion
With the busy mobile lifestyle, more time is taken to type; now the user with Dragon Dictation app for iPhone has easy-to-use, reduce text input time which gives faster results for the iPhone users.
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